Brandon J. Forys

The paper investigates how audiovisual cues affect risky decision-making in gambling tasks and finds increased anterior insula activity during cued risky wins.

The paper examines how short-term memory and chronic stress influence cognitive effort choices under varying reward and effort conditions.

The paper investigates how short-term memory ability influences cognitive effort deployment for reward in humans, finding it is the strongest predictor compared to depression, stress, and reward anticipation.

The paper examines how gender influences the relationship between anxiety and depression scores and performance in effortful avoidance and reward-seeking tasks.

This study investigates what aspects of an unconditioned stimulus are transferred to a conditioned stimulus during emotional learning, finding that hedonic rather than sensory features are reactivated.

This paper describes a real-time system for tracking mouse body movements using DeepLabCut and demonstrates movement-triggered optogenetic stimulation.